suastí

svastika

any lucky orﾠ auspicious object, (esp.) a kind of mystical cross orﾠ mark made on persons andﾠ things to denote good luck (it is shaped like a Greek cross with the extremities of the four arms bent round in the same direction;
the majority of scholars regard it as a solar symbol;
that is, as representing a curtailed form of the wheel of the Solar Vishṇu, consisting of four spokes crossing each other at right angles with short fragments of the periphery of the circle at the end of each spoke turning round in one direction to denote the course of the Sun;
accord. toﾠ the late Sir A. Cunningham it has no connexion with sun-worship, but its shape represents a monogram orﾠ interlacing of the letters of the auspicious words suastí < svasti> in the Aṡoka characters;
amongst Jainas it is one of the 24 auspicious marks andﾠ is the emblem of the seventh Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī) Hariv. Kāv. Pur. ;
the crossing of the arms orﾠ hands on the breast MBh. Mālatīm. Kathās. ;
a bandage in the form of a cross Suṡr. ;
a dish of a partic. form MBh. R. Pañcar. ;
a kind of cake ib. ;
a triangular crest-jewel L. ;
the meeting of four roads W. ;
a partic. symbol made of ground rice andﾠ formed like a triangle (it is used in fumigating the image of Durgā, andﾠ is said to symbolize the Liṇga) MW. ;
a species of garlic L. ;
a cock L. ;
a libertine L. ;
N. of a serpent-demon MBh. ;
of one of Skanda's attendants ib. ;
of a Dānava Hariv. ;
of a poet Cat. ;
of another man Buddh. ;
m. n. a mansion orﾠ temple of a partic. form VarBṛS. ;
Marsilea Quadrifolia L. ;
a partic. mode of sitting practised by Yogins (in which the toes are placed in the inner hollow of the knees) MārkP. Pañcar. ;
- स्वस्तिककर्ण
- स्वस्तिकदान
- स्वस्तिकयन्त्र